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The Vancouver junior shaking up the lithium mining industry
MGX Minerals President and CEO Jared Lazerson Demand from electric vehicles is blowing up lithium mining. In 2015, 174,000 tonnes of lithium worth $1.2 billion were mined. While the lithium-ion battery...
View ArticleRio Tinto lifts force majeure at Kennecott copper mine
World’s second largest mining company Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) has lifted force majeure on shipments of refined copper from its Kennecott unit in the US, 79 days after adopting the measure. The...
View ArticleTrump to shrink Utah national monuments in bid to boost drilling, mining
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will shrink the size of two national monuments in Utah, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said on Friday, a change that will open parts of them to drilling...
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Rio Tinto declares force majeure at Kennecott following fatal accident
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO), the second largest mining company, declared force majeure last Friday on shipments of refined copper from its Kennecott unit in the U.S. following the death of a worker...
View ArticleDrone footage of Bingham Canyon copper mine
Drone technology is advancing so quickly it's hard to keep up with it. From aerial shots of construction projects to surveillance of strategic locations and even heat maps of crops to make farming more...
View ArticleDespite funding shortfall, US Oil Sands aiming for Q4 start-up
Mining oil sands to extract bitumen used to create crude oil is generally a Canadian phenomenon. However, an Alberta company is hoping to change all that with a new project expected to start in the...
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Rio Tinto’s Kennecott wins clean air lawsuit in the US
A US court has ruled in favour of Rio Tinto’s (LON, ASX:RIO) Kennecott in a lawsuit over alleged pollution at its Bingham Canyon copper mine, located in Utah. The charges were brought forward in Sep....
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Canadian oil sands producer ready to begin digging pits in the US
The company's pioneering process uses a citrus extract called d-Limonene as a solvent to separate bitumen from sand. Canada’s U.S. Oil Sands (TSX-V:USO) is fine tuning details to open its mine in...
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Canada-owned oil sands mine in Utah to begin producing in fall
It will be the first commercial oil sands operations in the United States. Canada’s U.S. Oil Sands (TSX-V:USO) is fine tuning details to begin production at its mine in eastern Utah, one of the first...
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U.S. coal miners owe over $62 million in health and safety violations fines
Digging coal by machinery at the Brown Mine in West Virginia, mid-1900s. (Image by Lewis Wickes Hine | Library of Congress) U.S. coal producers owed the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)...
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IMAGE GALLERY: Potash ponds in the Utah desert
To the non-expert eye they may seem a set of mirages, but these turquoise-purple-pink visions are what ground-level potash ponds look like near Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah. By Orange Suede...
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PHOTOS: Bingham Canyon rebuilds after landslide
MINING.com tours Rio Tinto Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine 18 months after the largest non-volcanic landslide in history Source: Deseret News Bingham Canyon, 30 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah has...
View ArticleAmerica's first oil sands producer and other natural resources surprises:...
The natural resources space has been difficult in recent years. Potash prices collapsed, uranium spot prices hit a nine-year low, the gas market was in glut. Only oil has stayed strong. But Peter...
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Alberta most attractive mining destination in Canada, third worldwide
Oil sands development in Northern Alberta, Canada. For the second consecutive year, the Canadian province of Alberta —home to the booming and controversial oil sands industry— ranked first in the...
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About 100 workers evacuated from Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine
An estimated 100 employees and contractors were evacuated from Rio Tinto’s (LON, ASX: RIO) Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, US, on Wednesday evening after the site was affected for a small...
View ArticleRio Tinto starts off downsizing at its Utah mine
Mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) has cut nearly 100 jobs at its Kennecott Utah copper mine and warned further positions will be slashed later this month to lower operating costs after a pit-wall...
View ArticleArizona to be second state in the US to legally accept gold, silver as tender
Arizona lawmakers have voted in favour of legally accepting gold and silver coins as well as bullion as a currency in the state, driven mostly by worries about the strength of the world's monetary...
View ArticleRio Tinto copper output hit hard by Utah landslide, to fall 20%
Mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE:RIO) expects output from Utah’s Bingham Canyon, its largest copper mine, to fall considerably as a consequence of the landslide that saw 150m tonnes of material...
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Rio Tinto copper mine in Utah evacuated in face of major slide
A wall slide on Wednesday forced Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) to evacuate employees from its Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, one of the largest producers of the commodity in the United States, before...
View ArticleFraser Institute ranks Finland and Sweden top mining destinations
Despite their tough environmental protection laws, Finland and Sweden emerged as the top worldwide mining destinations of 2013 in the annual survey released Thursday by the Fraser Institute, Canada's...
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